Schafberg (Hüttertal)
| Schafberg | ||
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 The Felixurm on the Schafberg |
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| height | 285 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Hüttertal , Saxony | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 7 ′ 16 ″ N , 13 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Ridges | |
| rock | Granodiorite , greywacke | |
The Schafberg is an approx. 285 meter high elevation in the Hüttertal nature reserve between Radeberg and Wallroda in Saxony . Topographically, the Schafberg is located in the Wallroda district, district code 143081.
Origin of name
Until the end of the 19th century, the Hüttertal nature reserve was almost free of trees and consisted mainly of meadows and pastures. This was also due to the fact that the tree population was needed as a raw material for the construction of coal piles . The resulting free areas were used as pasture for centuries, mainly for sheep. The names Schafberg and Schafborn originate from this time, and the neighboring Hutberg also got its name from this time (derived from the old spelling Huth or hatch ). The Kleinwolmsdorf manor , to whose lands the area belonged for a long time, had a large sheepfold on the Schafberg.
General
geology
The Schafberg is located on the western edge of the West Lusatian hills and mountains and represents the end of a chain of hills, which also includes the Hutberg, which is about 300 meters to the east. The predominant bedrocks are granodiorite and greywacke .
Flora and fauna
The Schafberg is largely overgrown with natural oak and hornbeam forest . On the western slope there are still some of the few older trees in the Hüttertal . A large part of this old stock was destroyed in the tornado on May 24, 2010. A single old oak is designated as a natural monument . The transition from Schaf- to Hutberg is partly used as pasture. The fauna corresponds to that of the surrounding Hüttertal.
Schafbornbach
On the northern slope of the mountain sheep sheep springs born or sheep Born Bach. The small stream flows about 300 meters in a south-westerly direction before it flows into the Große Röder on the right . In its course it is fed by another spring, the Schafborn spring set in stone . The hiking trail to the Felix Tower runs right by the stream . Two pedestrian bridges cross the Schafbornbach: a wooden bridge below the Ringweg and a small stone bridge at the mouth of the Röder.
At the beginning of 2010, the Schafborn source on the lower reaches of the Schafbornbach was considered to have run dry. The construction of the Großerkmannsdorf / Radeberg bypass on the state road 177 was considered as a possible cause , as this now crosses the Hüttertal. Considerable construction work had been carried out for the construction of the roadways and a 140-meter-long bridge . The Förderverein Hüttertal Radeberg eV suspected that an underground water vein was cut; but a natural cause was not excluded either.
Wendenburg
The local historian Friedrich Bernhard Störzner reports on finds of a former castle complex on the Schafberg. Among other things, remains of a fortification are said to have been excavated on the mountain and on the western slope. Störzner handed down the legend that there was a castle of the Wends on the Schafberg , which should probably come from the time when the Wends settled the area (around the 7th century). Störzner dates the destruction of the castle to the time of Heinrich I , when he successfully fought the Slavs in the course of his Slav campaigns in 928 and 929. According to Störzner, finds of wall remnants (which cannot be identified archaeologically) on the western slope of the Schafberg also raised the assumption or possibility of the original location of the town of Radeberg, these assumptions turned out to be unfounded and unfounded. Störzner describes the presumed former castle of the Wends as "one of the oldest desert brands in eastern Saxony". During field inspections and test excavations in the second half of the 20th century, no archaeological evidence of the existence of a desert or Wendenburg or any other early local settlement in the Schaf or Hutberg area was found.
Felix Tower, restaurant and observatory
The Felix Tower, made of weathered granite, has stood on the Schafberg since 1824. At that time, the von Gutschmid family owned the manor in Kleinwolmsdorf , which also included the Schafberg area. Baron Johann Wilhelm von Gutschmid had it built as a private observatory for his son Felix . From 1839 to 1965 there was an inn next to the Felix Tower, which at times also included an accommodation building for up to 150 people. In addition, the first public Radeberg observatory was located directly at the tower on the Schafberg. The tower went into private ownership in 1978 (initially leased, bought in 2000), was renovated by the owners and is used for amateur radio purposes.
The Felix Tower is a listed building .
Others
The Radeberg senior teacher Adolf Kohlsdorf set up a promenade path in the area of the source of the Schafbornbach in 1905 for easy hikes for visitors to the Hüttertal. This runs in a ring on the slope of the Schafberg and is now advertised as the Felixturm or Kohlsdorfweg ring path .
From the hiking trail on the Großer Röder, the Radeberger Planet Trail leads to the Schafberg, which ends at the Felix Tower with the Pluto station . Since the Planet Trail was laid out before 2006 and Pluto was still classified as a planet at that time , it is the final stop on the trail.
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ On the website of the Felix Tower , the height of the Schafberg is given as 298 meters. This incorrect information was taken over from some other websites or newspaper articles. The actual height of around 285 meters is determined from topographic and geological maps with contour lines (see for example:
- Topographic maps of Saxony. 1: 25,000, Section Radeberg, from: Topographic map (measuring table sheets) Saxony 1936 ( online in the Deutsche Fotothek ),
- Geological map of Saxony. 1: 25,000, Section 51: Radeberg, 1916. ( Online in the Deutsche Fotothek ),
- OpenStreetMap ( online ))
- ^ Friedrich Bernhard Störzner : Bathing resort Augustusbad near Radeberg and its surroundings . 2nd improved edition. Printed by Julius Süss, Leipzig 1902, p. 19th f . ( Digital version of the SLUB ).
- ↑ Dresdner Heide, Pillnitz, Radeberger Land ; in: Values of our homeland , Vol. 27. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976. S. 112f.
- ^ Henry Lehmann: Felix Tower turns 190. In: the Radeberger Heimatzeitung, issue 28 of July 18, 2014.
- ↑ Jens Fritzsche: Hüttertal: Source at Schafborn has dried up. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition of March 9, 2010.
- ↑ List of cultural monuments of the municipality of Arnsdorf, viewed on October 5, 2014.
- ^ Herbert Müller / Red .: 60 years of the Hüttertal nature reserve in Radeberg. In: the Radeberger Heimatzeitung, issue 35 of September 5, 2014.